Senior Product Designer

As a Senor Product Designer, you will help shape the foundation of Outlook Experience Studios design systems, ensuring consistency, scalability, and innovation across products. You’ll collaborate with cross-functional teams—design, engineering, and product management—to create robust systems that empower designers and developers to deliver cohesive, accessible, and delightful user experiences.

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

Responsibilities

• Design System Development: Contribute to the evolution of Microsoft’s design language, components, and patterns for cross-platform experiences.
• Component Design & Documentation: Plan, create and maintain reusable components in Figma and document usage guidelines for designers and engineers.
• Collaboration: Partner with engineering and PM teams to ensure design specifications are feasible and implemented with high fidelity.
• Systems Thinking: Apply deep systems thinking to solve complex design challenges and maintain consistency across multiple surfaces and products.
• Advocacy: Evangelize design system adoption internally and provide guidance to product teams on best practices.
• Iteration & Feedback: Conduct usability reviews, gather feedback, and iterate on system components to improve quality and performance.
• Research & Development: Stay on top of the latest systems design trends and best practices, including Figma functionality updates and AI-driven systems thinking.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Master's Degree in Industrial Design, Product Design, Human Computer Interaction, User Experience, Interaction Design, or related field AND 4+ years experience working in product or service design
• OR Bachelor's Degree in Industrial Design, Product Design, Human Computer Interaction, User Experience, Interaction Design, or related field AND 5+ years experience working in product or service design
• OR equivalent experience.
• 4+ years shipping products, services, or games and/or delivering to customers as a result of an end-to-end design process.
• OR Bachelor's Degree in Industrial Design, Product Design, Human Computer Interaction, User Experience, Interaction Design, or related field AND 5+ years experience working in product or service design
• OR equivalent experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's Degree in Industrial Design, Product Design, Human Computer Interaction, User Experience, Interaction Design, or related field AND 6+ years experience working in product or service design
• OR Bachelor's Degree in Industrial Design, Product Design, Human Computer Interaction, User Experience, Interaction Design, or related field AND 8+ years experience working in product or service design
• OR equivalent experience.
• Solid portfolio demonstrating systems thinking and user-centered design.
• Proficiency in design tools such as Figma, Illustrator, and Photoshop.
• Experience collaborating with engineering and product teams in an agile environment.
• Familiarity with responsive design, accessibility standards, and token-based design systems.
• Ability to write clear documentation and usage guidelines.
• Solid communication and problem-solving skills.
• Experience with design for AI-driven or adaptive systems.
• Knowledge of front-end technologies (CSS, HTML) for better collaboration with developers.
• OR Bachelor's Degree in Industrial Design, Product Design, Human Computer Interaction, User Experience, Interaction Design, or related field AND 8+ years experience working in product or service design
• OR equivalent experience.

Product Design IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 - $234,700 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $158,400 - $258,000 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay
Microsoft will accept applications for the role until November 7, 2025.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.  We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

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